Dealing with spam

Disqus uses its own anti-spam software to smartly combat comment spam. It was designed to learn over time and becomes increasingly accurate with your moderation activity. Spammers are a prolific bunch, and thus there is always some chance that newer techniques may initially get past the anti-spam. These are tips on how to reduce or altogether eliminate spam.

Mark spam

Be sure to mark comments as spam if they are indeed spam. However, be careful not to mark non-spam comments, even if the comments are abusive, offensive, or just plain disagreeable. Marking non-spam comments as spam pollutes the data that Disqus collects and results in less accurate anti-spam detection.

You may mark comments as spam from the Moderation panel, the comment thread itself, and from email notifications.

Pre-moderation

You may choose to pre-moderate all comments posted on your site. All comments, spam or not, will require moderator approval before being published for others to see. Another option you may want to try is pre-moderating all links in comments. To view and change moderation settings, head to Disqus Admin > Community > Community Rules.

Report Spam to Disquss

We appreciate reports of spam accounts that aren't getting caught by the automatic spam filter. To report a spammer, see User Flagging.